The last two weeks in Room 2

Although we haven't blogged, we have been very busy!
Here are some highlights of the things we have enjoyed learning about in the last two weeks.

We went to Riccarton Bush.  We learnt not to pick leaves off the trees because the trees might die.  We learnt that there are lots of leaves that we can pick up from the ground.  Some of us saw a piwakawaka.

We went to the Museum.  We learnt about spiders and honey bees.  Girl bees are hard workers.  Boy bees are lazy.  Girl bees kick boy bees out of the hives.

We have been learning to do leap frog in fitness time.  We have learnt to leave spaces so that the next person has space to jump into.  This keeps us safe.  We have also been learning how to work together in a group to move our leap frog line back to the classroom.








We have been learning about the life cycle of a butterfly.  It was tricky to stick all the bits on the page.    Some of us found it difficult because we had to work together in a group.  We only had one part of the life cycle to make and we had to sort out with each other who was doing which part.  We have also been learning to be good speakers and have videoed ourselves talking about the life cycle.

  

We have been learning to show respect at Discovery Time.  We have to work together.  We have to greet others, include others, ask to join in and use a quiet voice to show respect to each other.  We have been having fun making caterpillars, chicks, cards, using the laptops and using the blocks and the bugs in the tray outside.

        

      

  

We have also made chocolate Easter Eggs.  We melted the chocolate and put them into special moulds. When they had set, we pushed them out and joined 2 together with chocolate to make one whole Easter Egg.  We wrapped them in foil and took them home to enjoy.  They were yummy!

   

We have had a busy time in Room 2 and are now getting ready for the Cross Country.  Phew, it is a long way, running twice around the field to practice but we are sure it will be fun. :-)

Waterwise

Room 2 today completed a poster about being Waterwise as part of a Tupperware competition.  We now have our fingers crossed that we might win water bottles for the whole school.  Here are the photos that we have sent in.  Thanks to Diane Burton for telling us about the competition and to Mrs Hastings for pulling it all together today! :-)

Learning to use the ukelele

At music today we learnt how to play the ukelele.  We learnt how to make the c chord.  We used this chord to sing "3 blind mice".  Jess and Mrs Henley took photos for our blog today.  Thanks Mrs Henley!  We think Jess did a great job of fitting almost everyone in the picture.  Well done Jess.  What a great photographer.

Laptops

Valuing Learning

Today we have been talking about ways that we can show that we value learning. Henry received a certificate for showing this at our school assembly. We think that we need to use quite inside voices, stay focussed on our learning and make sure that we get our activities finished on time.

Miss Browne was very proud of us at assembly today. We showed respect to all the people who presented at assembly :-)

Our First Week!

With our first week now complete we are all getting to know each other a little better.  I was hoping to have the children as the authors of our first blog using Audio Boo but that will have to wait until next week!  The aim is have something updated on here at least 3 times per week - all going well!
We have, however, completed our first ibook about the making of our butterflies.  The children who were at school in 2012 made these at the end of the year when they visited their new classroom.  They were then the experts and helped our new children to make them on their first day at school.  They were wonderful helpers and the children all enjoyed making their butterfly as you can tell from our ibook.  We have made it into a slideshow but I haven't quite mastered the technology to share it with you at the correct speed so I would encourage you to come into the classroom to view it in its book form.  Some children took photos on the ipod, so ask your child about the making of the butterflies as well as the ibook as we had some great teachers helping other children to put the photos on the right page.  We have such clever children in Room 2!
I have also uploaded some pictures from our first week together in a Picasa album.  You can access this in the Visual Images area of our class website.
I have had a great week and hope that you have been hearing a lot about what we do in Room 2.  Please keep checking back here to see what we have been up to.
Thanks
Trudi (on behalf of Room 2, for this week only!)